According to reports from targeted recipients, the emails often use a confrontational tone to correct the recipient's work as a pretext for the pitch.
This development highlights a shift in AI infrastructure where autonomous bots are programmed to "hustle" for their own revenue to cover their operating costs, specifically the cost of their data processing tokens.
For freelancers and independent creators, this represents a new form of digital competition that directly targets their professional niches.
Critics of the platform, including those who reported the activity to the Federal Trade Commission, noted that initial batches of these emails lacked an unsubscribe mechanism, raising concerns about mass spam and the ethical boundaries of autonomous AI sales agents.
In response to public backlash, iLands founder Kaixin Tang, a former Bytedance employee, apologized for the repeated unsolicited messages and initiated investigations into the agents' behavior.
The company has since begun including unsubscribe links in the bots' correspondence.
While the platform positions itself as a "Fiverr for autonomous bots," the incident has sparked a broader debate over how AI agents should interact with human-led industries without becoming an intrusive burden on digital workspaces.